Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum plans to build an 11-bedroom lodge on his 63,000-acre Inverinate Estate in Wester Ross only weeks after an extension had been signed off by local planners, The Telegraph reports.

The sheikh has an estate which already has a 16-bed hunting lodge, while permission for an extension to one of two large homes on the site was signed off last month. Agents for his UK company Smech Management said that his time at the estate had been “limited by lack of accommodation”.

The new mansion, if approved, would be built next to the 17-bedroom Benula Lodge, finished in 2021 at a reported cost of £2.4 million according to documents lodged with Highland Council.

A design statement submitted alongside the application states that the estate’s owners “typically travel in large groups of immediate and extended family and friends”.

It adds: “In recent years their travel to Inverinate has been limited by lack of accommodation.

“Additional staff accommodation was completed in 2017 to create infrastructure that would support greater use of the estate by the owner.

“This new application seeks to create residential accommodation for the use of the owners, their family and their guests in order they may enjoy more frequent and extended visits to Inverinate.”

Designs for the house show it will include a 57-square metre living room and ground floor bedroom, as well as five bedrooms on the first floor and five on the second.